Phony Benoni Member since Feb-10-06 · Last seen Jun-11-22 Greetings, O Seeker After Knowledge! You have arrived in Dearborn, Michigan (whether you like it or not), and are reading words of wisdom from a player rated 2938--plus or minus 1000 points. However, I've retired from serious play--not that I ever took playing chess all that seriously. You only have to look at my games to see that. These days I pursue the simple pleasures of finding games that are bizarre or just plain funny. I'd rather enjoy a game than analyze it. For the record, my name is David Moody. This probably means nothing to you unless you're a longtime player from Michigan, though it's possible that if you attended any US Opens from 1975-1999 we might have crossed paths. Lucky you. If you know me at all, you'll realize that most of my remarks are meant to be humorous. I do this deliberately, so that if my analysis stinks to High Heaven I can always say that I was just joking. As you can undoubtedly tell from my sparkling wit, I'm a librarian in my spare time. Even worse, I'm a cataloger, which means I keep log books for cattle. Also, I'm not one of those extroverts who sit at the Reference Desk and help you with research. Instead, I spend all day staring at a computer screen updating and maintaining information in the library's catalog. The general public thinks Reference Librarians are dull. Reference Librarians think Catalogers are dull. My greatest achievement in chess, other than tricking you into reading this, was probably mating with king, bishop and knight against king in a tournament game. I have to admit that this happened after an adjournment, and that I booked up like crazy before resuming. By the way, the fact I have had adjourned games shows you I've been around too long. My funniest moment occurred when I finally got a chance to pull off a smothered mate in actual play. You know, 1.Nf7+ Kg8 2.Nh6+ Kh8 3.Qg8+ Rxg8 4.Nf7#. When I played the climactic queen check my opponent looked at the board in shocked disbelief and said, "But that's not mate! I can take the queen!" Finally, I must confess that I once played a positional move, back around 1982. I'll try not to let that happen again.

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Jun-11-22 M Blau vs Keres, 1959    Phony Benoni: Not a good recommendation for the DERLD. Out of 59 moves, White makes only three in Black's half of the board. And two of those conist of 3.Bb5 and 6.Bxc6.      Jun-11-22 chessgames.com chessforum    Phony Benoni: Er, it's back. Karpov vs Timman, 1988      Jun-10-22 Orlo Milo Rolo   Phony Benoni: Marco!      Jun-10-22 Lilienthal vs Bondarevsky, 1947   Phony Benoni: Another one for you King Hunters. Black's monarch travels fron g8 to b8, then takes the Great Circle Route back to h3 before calling it a day.      Jun-10-22 GrahamClayton chessforum    Phony Benoni: <GrahamClayton> I've posted a question for you at L T Magee vs J Holland, 1948      Jun-10-22 L T Magee vs E L Holland, 1948    Phony Benoni: <GrahamClayton> The source you cite, <Chess Review, May 1948, p. 24>, gives Black's name as <E Holland> "Chess Life" (June 5, 1948, p. 1) has a table of results giving <E L Holland>. That form also appears in USCF rating supplements for a player fro ...      Jun-09-22 Biographer Bistro    Phony Benoni: SkinnVer Here Among the Fold?      Jun-09-22 Flohr vs Bondarevsky, 1947    Phony Benoni: Black's bishop makes me think of Godzilla emerging from the depths of the ocean to wreak havoc. However, in the end it's his Two Little Friends who steal the show. Well, maybe not so litt.      Jun-06-22 W Ritson-Morry vs G T Crown, 1947   Phony Benoni: it was the last round. Rison-Morry was mired in last place. These things happen.      Jun-06-22 W Adams vs M Kagan, 1947   Phony Benoni: Some more informztion. The game was published in <Chess Review>, March 1948, p. 23. Black's name is given as "M Kagan", and the location as "Massachusetts". There is no other game data, but I think we can now safely assume Black is <Milton Kagan>. Earlier in the ...

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 200 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-24-10    A.G. Argent: You guys remember last year, I think, I posed my favorite sports bar trivia question,( pre-PDA), in asking who the winningest pitchers of each of the last 5 full decades (50's-90's) were? Everyone had some good stabs. Well, anybody care to stab at who, so far, the winningest hurler of the oughts, 2001 through now is? With Maddux and Johnson retired and their stats academic, the answer really ain't all that obvious. Said pitcher is neck and neck with another guy, that's all I'll say (3 games apart, as of today). And if ya wanna revisit who the other guys from decades past were, please do so. It's great fun. Jul-24-10    Jim Bartle: Sounds like you're describing Andy Pettite. Others might be Roy Halladay or CC Sabathia. Jul-24-10    Phony Benoni: I have no idea about questions like this, and have to look things up. (Occupational hazard for librarians; we don't always know the answer, but we usually know where to look.) If my figures are right, JB got two of the top three and three of the top five. The leader appears to be ahead by a milliliter. Jul-24-10    Jim Bartle: How about Tim Hudson? Seems to have been pretty consistent year after year, played on good teams. I'd consider Roy Oswalt if he'd played on a better team. Jul-24-10    Phony Benoni: Here's what I've got. This may not be complete, but <A.G.> can have the pleasure of correcting me. 1. Sabathia 149 2. Halladay 146 3. Oswalt 143 4-5. Buehrle 140 4-5. Pettitte 140 6-7. Lowe 136 6-7. Moyer 136 (!) 8. Zito 134 9. Santana 128 10. Hudson 127 Pettitte would have been the winner had the span of years been 2000-2009 instead of 2001-2010. Hudson and Randy Johnson, who had big years in 2000, were hurt by that as well. Jul-24-10    Jim Bartle: Lowe I never would have guessed. Oswalt did very well considering his team. Zito had some terrible years with the Giants, only 30 wins in three years. Jul-24-10    chancho: "<It gave me no chance. He just blew it <<<(strikeout number five-thousand) by me.>>> But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times."> Rickey Henderson Jul-24-10    Jim Bartle: I'm surprised he didn't say "He gave Rickey no chance." Jul-25-10    Phony Benoni: No joy in Detroit tonight, as two more starters wind up on the disabled list. First, RF Magglio Ordonez, who was playing on a gimpy ankle, fractures it sliding into home: http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video... Then 2B Carlos Guillen pulls a calf muscle making a nice play: http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video... Just before the video cuts off, you hear the announcer say in a concerned tone, "Carlos keeps..." Both were two of the more dependable hitters in a sometimes anemic lineup. Now, Ordonez is out 6-8 weeks, and the injury-prone Guillen on the DL for who knows how long. Coupled with Brandon Inge's injury earlier this week and the coming opening of Lions training camp... I don't know how much more we can take. Frankly, the Tigers' season is probably shot, unless their entire pitching staff gets Cy Young Fever. Miguel Cabrera may not see another strike this season. Jul-25-10    Jim Bartle: The Tigers seem to be losing a close game every day, and they're also playing in bad luck. Last night, trailing by a run in the ninth, they hit a ball to the warning track and another solid line drive to fairly deep center, both caught. Too bad about the string of injuries. Jul-25-10    A.G. Argent: Nope, Czar, no correcting here. Looks right. Problem is, a guy shouldn't ask a trivia question and not have his facts straight. I rushed my research and got it wrong. I had Oswalt in front with Pettite just behind. Neglected to even look at the likes of Sabbathia, Buehrle and Halladay. That's why you're a librarian and I'm a house painter. Jul-26-10    Jim Bartle: Giants' record since trading Bengie Molina: 16-6. Replacement catcher Buster Posey: .358, .580 slugging. Jul-26-10    Phony Benoni: And I guess Molina hasn't been hurting Texas with his new found speed. Jul-26-10    jessicafischerqueen: My dear <Phony Benoni>- Here is some very interesting information on Munich 1900 from my friend <Crawfb5>: <crawfb5:> "I've been looking at the <Brooklyn Daily Eagle> coverage of <Munich 1900>. They had short updates most days on the tournament, which is more coverage than they had for <Buffalo 1901>! Anyway, one little nugget is the original plan was to have the three co-winners with 12/15 play two games against each other. I even have the planned schedule. However, after losing his first playoff game against Pillsbury, Maroczy had to drop out due to illness, so they switched to a 4-game mini-match of Pillsbury-Schlechter. This is how we got Pillsbury with <5> extra games, Schlechter with <4>, and Maroczy with only <1>." Jul-26-10    jessicafischerqueen: In case you secretly wanted to see my friend <Crawfb5> in action, here is a video he stars in- It's an account of the infamous "Sicilian Vespers" variation of the Najdorf- at Goteborg 1955, Potoroz 1958, and Milford Connecticut 2010. heh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVJ_... Jul-26-10    Phony Benoni: <JessicaFischerQueen> I also found the file of games at PGN Mentor, and it looks like most of them are scattered around in the database already. Jul-26-10    A.G. Argent: What a marvelous analysis, Jess. Thank you. Jul-26-10    tpstar: <Phony Benoni> That Mate in One with the ten Black Kings is hilarious! Is it yours or another composer's creation? Jul-26-10    Deus Ex Alekhina: Comerica Park (the CoPa) might be the real reason for the Tigers' woes. Perhaps someone would have mentioned this fact a few years down the road, but I broach it here & now: the CoPa might be cursed, jinxed itself. As I remember, 2 or 3 workers were killed in the construction of the CoPa when scaffolding fell. Since superstition is a part of baseball, this tragedy may play a role. Jul-26-10    Phony Benoni: <tpstar> I'm not that clever. Just happened to run into it on the InterWeb, but first saw it forty years ago in Irving Chernev's <The Chess Companion>. Jul-26-10    crawfb5: <PB> I saw where you had posted this: <I could do Munich 1900. I've got the week off from work and need something to do anyway.> I'd started pulling together games from Munich because I thought nobody else had time, but I've only just started (less than 20 of the 125 games linked so far), so if you'd like to do it, feel free. I can go back to hand-weeding that monster games database that is threatening to become a lifetime project... Jul-26-10    Phony Benoni: Looks like a typical Tigers game; no hits through five innings. Of course the Rays don't have any hits either... Jul-26-10    Phony Benoni: Rats. The Rays finally got a hit in the bottom of the sixth. Double Rats. It was a home run. #&$(#@#$&(@#&$(@#($**&@(. The bases were loaded. Jul-26-10    Jim Bartle: They walked the bases loaded? Jul-26-10    Phony Benoni: 2 walks and a catcher's interference, of all things. Final score 5-0. Tigers never did get a hit. The good news is they didn't leave any runners on base. (No, no, no. There was a walk and double play.) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 200 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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